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28 Aug Business Innovation by Birds

Birds excel at business innovation because their survival depends upon it.

So here are three innovations (from birds) that you can use to improve your business.

Then I added a modern (human) interpretation followed by a suggested implementation.

California Scrub-Jay

Innovation #1: Investments

Birds use three powerful investment strategies.

1) Protect principle. For example, birds never damage the trees that produce their food. Doing this would destroy their food supply, which could lead to bankruptcy. (Note: bankruptcy is not an option in Nature.)

2) Spend only the income from an investment. For example, the California Scrub-Jay collects nuts (income from trees). Then it either eats the nuts or hides (invests) them for later.

3) Reinvest to expand principle. For example, some of the nuts grow into trees that produce more nuts.

Modern Business: First, create principle. Second, operate within your income. And third, add value to the business by increasing principle.

To Do: Design your operation to increase the resources that underwrite its future.

Rock Pigeon

Innovation #2: Organization

This photo shows that the Rock Pigeon understands leadership.

Note that, as in any organization chart, the CEO is at the top. Below are the vice-presidents. Next are the managers. And everyone else is out in the field working.

Actually, these birds will arrange themselves according to dominance. So the top bird (as you can see) sits on the top.

Modern Business: Leaders develop a vision of the future and then inspire people to create it.

3 Comments

Donna Sanford

Posted at 23:54h, 29 August

Simple and Sensible examples employed by our feathered friends, communicated through and by a friend.
Thank you. It seems that observation is a rare commodity as is applying simple and sensible. So refreshing to be reminded..